Dark Factory KB
Compiled knowledge base on autonomous AI agent factories — Kelly, Gas Town, and Yuki AI CEO. Built from handbook chapters, tweets, essays, and cross-factory gap analysis.
Factory Overviews
Kelly Factory
Ovi's autonomous factory: Router orchestrator, named sub-agents (Carson, Mary, Sally, Amelia, Phil), 5-layer memory, TEA audit gates, sessions_yield execution model.
Yuki AI CEO
Judy Win, AI CEO of Yuki Capital. GitHub-as-brain, 3-tier authority matrix, 3 autonomous production loops, progressive disclosure memory, board reviews as quality gates.
Gas Town (Steve Yegge)
Multi-agent dark factory with Mayor, Crew, Polecats, Deacon, Witness, Refinery roles. GUPP hooks, Beads substrate, adversarial multi-agent quality model.
Kelly System
Software Factory Handbook
Core factory principles, organizational structure, autonomous agent teams.
Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-agent orchestration, role assignment, communication patterns.
Factory Tweets
Tweet thread on factory design, pipeline stages, and autonomous execution.
Agent Tweets
Tweet thread on agent roles, spawning, and sub-agent management.
BMAD Tweets
BMAD (Build Me A Dashboard) agent pattern — rapid spec-to-demo workflow.
Research Transcripts
Factory research transcripts and methodology notes.
Gas Town / Steve Yegge
Welcome to Gas Town
The canonical dark factory: Mayor, Crew, Polecats, Deacon, Witness, Refinery roles. GUPP hook enforcement. Adversarial multi-agent quality.
Welcome to Gas City
Gas Town's successor: SDK for building custom dark factories via composable "packs." 11 stages of AI adoption.
Beads
Gas Town's audit/TEA substrate: git-versioned work items with Why fields. Beads-as-Why pattern. Dolt-backed.
GUPP
Hook enforcement protocol: relentless worker utilization, must-run-when-hook-is-non-empty, Deacon daemon cleanup.
MEOW / Knowledge Graph
Typed knowledge graph with causal edges. Dolt-backed, machine-queryable, versioned snapshots.
Mayor / Crew / Polecats
Role hierarchy: Mayor (orchestrator), Crew (persistent named agents), Polecats (ephemeral workers).
Wasteland
Federated reputation system for autonomous agents. Market of work, agent identity, trust propagation.
SaaS Mountain
Escape from SaaS Mountain: monolithic tools vs composable factory primitives. Gas City architecture thesis.
Yuki Capital AI CEO
The AI CEO Experiment
Repo-as-brain architecture, three-tier authority matrix, decision log, 85% analyst / 15% operator assessment.
From Smart Notepad to Something More
Judy gets a server body, email identity, screen tracking, n8n automation, mistake log. Failed dev branch pilot.
The AI CEO Now Runs Autonomously
Three autonomous loops in production (3am model scout, 6am bug autofix, weekly SEO). Narrative > tables memory finding. Progressive disclosure.
The Intelligence Premium
AI economic displacement vs slow compression. Citrini crisis scenario analysis. Purchasing power > nominal wages.
The GUI Parenthesis
CLI→GUI→CLI arc. Interface-as-product businesses at risk. Canva/Notion high risk; Bloomberg/Veeva lower risk.
The Agentic Economy
>50% web content AI-generated. Agent payment protocols. Outcome-based pricing. Contribution as payment fourth model. Data flywheels as top moat.
Gap Analyses & Comparisons
Kelly vs Gas Town — Full Gap Analysis
Systematic comparison: Beads, GUPP, MEOW, Mayor, Crew, Polecats, Deacon, Witness, Refinery, Wasteland, Gas City SDK. Adoption priorities per concept.
Yuki vs Kelly vs Gas Town — Gap Analysis
Concept cross-reference table across all three factories. Universal patterns, Yuki's unique contributions, synthesis recommendations for Kelly.
Multi-Factory Comparison
Kelly, Gas Town, and Yuki AI CEO compared across 10 dimensions: autonomy, memory, quality gates, governance, infrastructure.
Beads vs Kelly State Mechanisms
Beads (Dolt-backed, git-versioned) vs Kelly's four separate mechanisms: PIPELINE-STATE.json, DONE markers, TEA audit, MEMORY.md.